@mischievoustomato@cmdr_nova I think the real problem is that financial fraud is a new scary concept to a lot of people. Pre-crypto world it was a pretty rare thing to hear about unless it was the once-every-few-years national news story for some absolutely massive financial crimes. It seemed like things were under control. But that's far from reality.
These crimes are happening all around us but we turn a blind eye to it: knowing of or getting paid under the table by some business, not reporting tips, not reporting money from friends or family, someone selling speakers out of a van, the markets where you can find knockoff luxury goods, etc. They all suck but we're not so concerned about it.
Money laundering is happening all around us, and it's pretty easy compared to blockchain. Selling junk at crazy prices to make transfer of money seem legit. Like those Trump watches. Probably money laundering, but it's a hard thing to prove. If they deliver actual goods then you gotta accept it's legitimate enough. The government doesn't get to decide what people value your name or brand. You need to get caught with the actual evidence of you planning it and thankfully they can't get a warrant from such weak suspicion.
There are so many clever ways to do these crimes.
You know what has a sparking reputation these days? The stock markets. The media really seems to have made them America's darling and it's in their own financial interests to not talk about the bad things in the markets. You don't want to deter potential investors. They don't want you to know about dark pools and front-running transactions. Trades that happen without routing through the public markets. Over-sold stocks. Stocks that are backed by nothing, not even a real company doing something. The SEC can see what's happening on chain better than they can what's on the markets.
@cmdr_nova ethereum moved to a Proof of Stake model and dropped their power usage by ~99.95%
But I don't know what to say otherwise. You cannot have an open, free, unregulated market without some scammers and people wanting to maximize profits; you can't have this digital property marketplace concept and expect people to ignore the financial value aspect.
@thendrix Just stop doing this, go spend time with your friends/family/wife/girlfriend and maybe see a therapist. Take care of yourself. You don't need to live this way.
@thendrix@SlicerDicer@mloxton@EvilSandmich@sun the only thing that hurts is watching you argue with a ghost of a teenage version of me over 20 years ago. I am not the same person I was then and I certainly hope you aren't either.
@thendrix@SlicerDicer@mloxton@EvilSandmich@sun It's really tiring how you invent this strawman version of myself to argue with all the time, pretending that you know exactly what I think and believe on every possible topic that exists
@goblin I had Theo de Raadt email me too once! On the public bugs list! And called me a "fucking American pig" for requesting that a severe crash fix be included in a patch for the current stable release and demanded that I "stop using the software".
So I gladly emailed him back when we migrated our route reflectors off of OpenBSD to Junipers to let him know I "stopped using the software".
@sun@Theeo123 If they really have 100M users worldwide as Proton claims to have, they don't need to spend any time doing this. They don't e.g., need new paying users to help reinforce the legal status of their non-profit.
They have no reason to attempt to acquire as much "marketshare" as possible.
Do they really have a ton of extra capital to burn and don't want to pay it out to themselves? Why not invest it in open source, pay for more audits, etc?
My spidey senses about Proton have been tingling for years now.